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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 27

lODINE FOR STOCK NOTED AUTHORITY’S FINDINGS The necessity for iodine has long been established as regards human beings. Thus goitre is due to a deficiency of iodine content in food and drink assimilated. During the past few years veterinary surgeons have awakened to the fact that much of the malnutrition among stock that come under their notice is due to the same cause. So, in an informative pamphlet on the subject, Frank Ewart Corrie, a leading veterinary authority, tells in a very illuminating manner how the natural supply of iodine secreted in the thyroid glands fails on occasions and how it may be reinforced by artificial means. The treatise gives very full particulars of the results obtained by adding proportions of iodine to the feed of stock which are backward in condition and development, and otherwise are not, apparently, returning a value for the food supplied them. Instances are too numerous to quote, but iodine administration seems to have produced improved results in stock so widely removed as pigs, sheep, cattle, horses and poultry. It is introduced to the stock by natural feeding methods, so there is no trouble about elaborate injection, etc., as with many other causative and preventive schemes. Results of a long series of experiments are tabulated so convincingly that it is impossible to deny that the writer’s theory, based on much experience by European breeders, is a sound one.